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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

A Fish Out of Water

A Fish Out of
WaterFamily Matters

By
Amy Gentry

The only thing I love more than a day of shopping at
the mall with my daughter is a ROOT CANAL without pain killers using slimy,
rusty instruments!!!So I jumped at the
chance to give my 16 year old daughter the freedom to go to the mall with a
friend and find a Disney character costume to wear to school for the following
week for Disney Day.My daughter is a
beautiful red head so the logical Disney princess of choice for her was Ariel,
but how to balance artistic interpretation, school dress code and moral dress
code.

The girls had been shopping for hours; I’m sure
giggling and trying on things that never would cut the mustard around
here.My daughter flew in the front door
with bags from multiple stores and ran to her room to put away the bags.But when she emerged from the bedroom she was
not outfitted in her newest wears.Hmmm….I asked her to model her
costume for the family while I was prepping dinner.

My stunning red head confidently emerged from the
bedroom in a teal tube dress that was a size too small, and a purple
bustier.She DID look like Ariel from
The Little Mermaid.

-The artistic interpretation was realized, she had
successfully shopped the mall for pieces of regular clothing that could be put
together to resemble Ariel.Job well
done!

We are different.In 1 Peter 2:11, Christians are referred to as aliens and strangers in
this world.“So
brace up your minds; be sober (circumspect, morally alert); set your hope
wholly and unchangeably on the
grace (divine favor) that is coming to you when Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is
revealed.[Live] as children of obedience [to
God]; do not conform yourselves to the evil desires [that governed you] in your
former ignorance [when you did not know the requirements of the Gospel].But as the One Who called you is holy,
you yourselves also be holy in all your conduct and manner of living.For it is written, You shall be holy,
for I am holy.”1 Peter 1:13-16 AMP

"When you did not know the requirements of the Gospel?”Is dressing modestly a requirement of the
Gospel?No.But God does ask for us to be holy because He
is holy.Holy means being set apart as
consecrated.There is something special
about God, He is holy.Likewise, there
is something special about you, you are holy.